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FILM NOIR noun

Definition of film noir (noun)

  1. a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters
    • "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet
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